8th December 2024 - 11 minutes read time
After installing the RTL-SDR on my Clockwork uConsole (running a Raspberry Pi CM4) I was looking for something to try out the device to see what it could do. The GNU Radio Companion is still a bit baffling at the moment so I was searching for something with a lower barrier to entry.
One thing that caught my eye was a project on GitHub called dump1090. This is a "Mode S" decoder that uses the RTL-SDR to decode transponder information from Aircraft. Whilst the package is quite old now, it is still being minimally maintained. The dependencies are quite small and so it tends to compiles quite nicely without too many additional packages or issues, event on the limited hardware of the CM4.
